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:::  SMOKING PIPES  :::

SMOKING PIPES


We bring to you the latest and traditional styles of glass smoking pipes and handicrafts produced by highly skilled Nepalese craftsmen. Each artifact is an individual work of art to be treasured by you or given as a unique gift to a special friend.

When it is started?

Native Americans smoked tobacco in pipes long before the arrival of Europeans. The calumet, or peace pipe, was smoked in ceremony to seal covenants and treaties. Tobacco was introduced to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century and spread around the world rapidly.

In Asia during the 1800s, opium (which previously had only been eaten) was added to tobacco and smoked in pipes. Madak (the mixture of opium and tobacco) turned out to be far more addictive than orally-ingested opium, leading to social problems in China which culminated in the Opium Wars.

In the 20th century, pipe smoking has been adopted as a preferred method of consumption for a variety of psychoactive drugs and some claim it is a more intense method of ingestion. Smokable crack cocaine has a reputation for being more addictive than cocaine's insufflated form. Similarly, methamphetamine has gained popularity in a crystalline form which when smoked in a pipe lets the user avoid the painful nasal irritation of snorting. When not applied to a cigarette or joint, the liquid form of PCP is typically smoked in a pipe with tobacco or marijuana.

What use to make?

Pipes have been fashioned from an assortment of materials including briar, clay, ceramic, corncob, glass, meerschaum, metal, gourd, stone, wood and various combinations thereof, most notably, the classic English calabash pipe.

Water pipes bubble smoke through water to cool the smoke or reduce harshness. The two basic types of water pipe are hookahs and bongs. Hookahs are traditionally used to smoke a gooey mixture of tobacco, molasses, honey, and fruit. Bongs are typically used for smoking cannabis.

Pipes also vary across a wide spectrum of cost and complexity, from simple pipes of unglazed clay which were popular in Europe and the Americas for centuries, to hookahs made of hand-blown glass and fitted with precious metals.


black smoking pipe
Red Glass smoking pipe
jumbo smoking pipe
Stylish smoking pipe
Green Glass smoking pipe
yellow smoking pipe
Grey Pipe

How to purchase?

All customers can purchase with the help of our marketing manager, or can contract direct our company in Nepal.

 
 

Contact Us:

Handicrafts & Agricultural Services Nepal Pvt. Ltd.
Bhaktapur, Nepal
Post Box No.: 12172
Tel.: +977 1 6635589
Fax: +977 1 6631260
Cell: +977-9841-380768
Email: info@hasnepal.com
URL: www.hasnepal.com



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